Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44798, Jeremiah Eells, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Ells, Jeremiah
S. 44798
CONTENTS

11.650 New York from  Connecticut Jeremiah Eells of New Canaan in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley of the Connecticut line, for the term of nine months 1776 Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 9 th of April, 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of June 1819 and sent to Pierpont Edwards Esq. Bridgeport, Conn. Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 10 mos. 26/30 86.93 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1 st Sept. 1819. 48.00 $134.93
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Official sent to Allen A. Fonda Esq. Schenectady N.York June 12 1820
This case was suspended in Dec. 1820 - and suspension removed 11 September 1822.

District of Connecticut ss
On this 9 th day of April A.D. 1810 Jeremiah Potts of New Canaan in said District under oath declares before Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut in which District the Declarant now resides and ever since the end of the war of the Revolution hath resided that in the first week in in May A.D. the year seventeen hundred & seventy five the Declarant enlisted into the service of the United States against the common enemy as a private in Captain Beardslee's Company and Colonel Waterbury's Regiment for the term of eight months in the Connecticut line which term he faithfully served out in the Northern Army of the United States under General James Montgomery and as the declarant believes on the continental establishment in the war of the Revolution And that soon about the first day of May in the year seventeen hundred & seventy six the Declarant again enlisted into said service of the United States as a private in their armies against the common enemy in Captain Laurens Keeler's Company and Colonel Philip B. Bradley's Regiment in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment of said armies in said war and that he faithfully served the United States in their said armies from the time of his last mentioned enlistment until taken a prisoner by said enemy in Fort Washington on the sixteenth day of November 1776 and that after being so taken the declarant remained in said service of the United States as a prisoner with the enemy on board the Jersey Prison Ship He remained until about the twentieth day of January seventeen hundred & seventy seven

when emancipated & reduced to the borders of the grave the declarant was on his parole released by the enemy to come home to Connecticut. There he remained a prisoner to the enemy for more than one year thereafter before his exchange. All which time the Declarant believes that he was served the United States in the war of the Revolution in their armies against the common enemy and in said line and said establishment.
And the Declarant for the maketh oath that he now is & ever since the declaration of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support.
Jeremiah Ellis
District of Connecticut ss. April 4 th 1818. The above named Jeremiah Ellis came before me this day.
I Richard Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Jeremiah Ellis who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as stated in his said declaration. & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his case to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to an Act of Congress in such case made & provided. said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed Schedule May 20 th 1818.
Richard Edwards

when circumstances reduced to the borders of the grave the declarant was on his parole released by the enemy to come home to Connecticut. There he remained a prisoner to the enemy for more than one year thereafter before his exchange. All which time the Declarant believes that he was served the United States in the war of the Revolution in their armies against the common enemy and in said line was said establishment.
And the Declarant for the matter of oath that he now is & ever since the declaration of Independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support.
Jeremiah Bell
District of Connecticut ss. Attest of 1818 the aforesaid Jeremiah Bell came before me in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made oath that the same is true
Richard L. D. Lewis
District Judge of District

believe on the continental establishment in ... may in
Difficult of connection to March 30 th 1819 Turkey that the within year Jeremiah Bell also lay reason of his return Circumstances make stand in need of The apostasy of some lay for support Without Edward D. Sherbrooke of Dept

STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF RICHMOND
Continue
1850 1851 1852

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. County of Schenectady, }
ON this fifteenth day of May 1820 personally appeared before me Simon A. Groot one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County Jemimah Bells a Pensioner Connecticut line under the act of the 1st of March 1818. Pursuant to the act of the 1st day of May 1820. aged Sixty two years resident in the county of Schenectady who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: He enlisted in Capt. Hecker's Company, Col. Bradleys Regt. Connecticut line in the establishment of 1776 with the promise served until Decr. taken prisoner at Fort Washington continued three years. Certificate No. 11-652. June, 1819.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedule.
  Real estate.  None.    Personal estate     Shoemakers tools  $5    One Acc.  $2    Household furniture  $10    Income none.     Occupation Cobbler     Family  Years    Jemimah Bells. myself aged  62    Thankful. Wife. 58. years past. Benjamin Son.  29    married & moved. Marianna married & moved 27. years. Sally 25. years. married & moved. Anna 22. years married & moved. Betsy. 19. years. Jemimah daughter 10. years. Aaron. 16 years. Mahitable. married & moved 41. years.   
Sworn to and declared, on the 15 day of May 1820, before me Simon A. Groot , one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas County aforesaid - examined & approved in Open court. May 18 th 1820. Jemimah Bells.
I, JELLES A. FONDA, clerk of the county of Schenectady, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Eighteen dollars and  cents....In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said county, on this 5 th day of June 1820.
Jelles A. Fonda
Clerk of the County of Schenectady.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Jeremiah Eells a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. 44,798
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1775 8 mos. Private Beardlec Waterbury Conn.   May 1 1776 Samuel Keller Philip B. Bradley   Nov. 16, 1776 he was captured at Ft. Washington, confined on the prison ship "Jersey" until Jany. 20, 1777 when he was paroled for one year before he was exchanged.  
Battles engaged in, see above.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓
Date of application for pension, April 9, 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, New Canaan, Conn.
Age at date of application, in 1820: past sixty-five years.
Remarks: in 1820 he resided in Schenectady Co. N. Y. & referred to his family:  wife Thankful ae 58 yrs.  Mahitable ae 41 married;  son Benjamin ae 29 married; Marinda ae 27  married; Sally ae 25 married; Anna ae 23 married; Betsey ae 19 yrs;  Jeremiah 18 yrs; Aaron 16 yrs.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
Only one - would probably not have alleged any subsequent State service under this det.

JAN 19 1904
FILES.
B.
Donohoe Bldg., 1170 Market St., Box 28, San Francisco, Jan. 10, 1904.
Commissioner of Pensions, Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior, 2004 Washington, D. C., Dear Sir:-
Will you kindly give me all the data and information the Pension Bureau possesses con- cerning
John Butler a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He enlisted I believe from Fairfield Co., Connecticut and applied for his pension while residing in

Walton, New York. I believe he married a Miss Martha Eels at Canaan, Conn. John Butler was my great grand- father and I shall be very much obliged to receive this information for which I ask you.
Respectfully yours
A. W. Traversee, M. D.
P.S. If you will also send the mil- itary records of
Lieutenant Jeremiah Baird Eels
I believe of Canaan Conn. and
Rev. John Eels
who were also my ancestors you will greatly oblige me.
A. W. T.

44 798 Reg INVALID.
File No. 44 798
Jeremiah Eells Rev. Rev. Wm
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 153
[Arrangement of 1870.]
July 26-190 In S. N. Pravers San Francisco C
1916 May 16. Hist. to Miss C.B. Capshaw letter in S. 37.656 Daniel Allen. P
1920, Dec. 6 Hist. to Mrs. S. C. Berlin Letter in S. 36121 Ephraim Merriam. P.

Inverness Calls.
Priv:
Col. Bradley's Connecticut Regt.
1776-
2 nd April 1810.
Admitted.
The deposition of two credible & disinterested witnesses to prove the services of Applicant, duly to be taken & authenticated, (or the certificate of an officer of the Regt.) is required.
The certificate of the Judge as to reduced circumstances of Applica- cant is wanting.
done

District of Connecticut ss On the 9 th day of April A.D. 1819 before me Purport Ed.
State of Connecticut Newalk April 28: 1819
On this day personally appeared before me the subscribing authority James Duntard and William Garrison both of said Newalk (who are known to me and are credible witnesses) the form of whom solemnly affirmed and the latter made solemn Oath that they know Jeremiah Ellis of New Canaan; that they together with said Ellis, in the spring of the year 1778 enlisted in the Company of Captain Samuel Trumbull and Col. Phillip B. Bradley's Reg't of Continental Troops for the term of nine months; that said Company was detached for the defence of Fort Washington in York Island, where they were taken prisoners in the month of November following, and confined on board a Prison Ship in the Harbor of New York, that said Ellis was with them during said time and that in the winter following they were together with said Ellis liberated on parole.
James Duntard William Garrison
Sworn before me W. M. Bets Justice of Peace

District Committee 7 th April 30 th 1819 I have heard Edward Disher said of the District of Connecticut etc. etc. that he am well acquainted with the author named that William Matthew Beth and that he is a friend of the house northern and for the county of Fairfield and that the name W. M. Beth was printed to the edition of said Disher or his brother handwriting John Edwards Jr

District of Connecticut ss
On the 9 th day of April A.D. 1810 before me Purport Edwards District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut came Stephen Weed Jr. of New Canaan in said District who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Jeremiah Eells the aforesaid defendant and well knows that he now is and for many years past hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of opportunity from his country for his support
At the same time came Stephen Weed Senior of said New Canaan who being duly sworn doth depose & say that he well knows all the facts set forth in the said Eells declaration foregoing are true as to the deponent served during both said campaigns with the said Eells in the same company and was taken prisoner with him at Fort Washington, was held a prisoner with him by the enemy on board the Prison Ship and was with him paroled and exchanged as he has set forth
Stephen Weed junior Stephen Weed
April 9 th 1810 Sworn before me
Purport Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut

State of New York Saratoga County ss.
Ezra Nash of Milton in the County of Saratoga in said State. Being duly sworn says that he this Deponent enlisted as a private and served in a Regiment Commanded by Colonel Philip Burr Bradley of the Connecticut line in the Revolutionary war in the Year 1776. That the said Regiment was commonly called Years men. for the circumstance of the term of their enlistment was for one Year. And this Deponent well recollects that the said term of service extended beyond the month of December 1776. and that the men belonging to the said Regiment received their discharge and returned home after that time
Ezra Nash
Sworn & Subscribed
to the 22 nd August
1822
I Certify that the above Deponent is a credible witness
Thomas Palmer
Justice
Judge of the Peace in & for the County of Saratoga & State of New York

State of New York Saratoga County Clerks office ss
I, Munloke W Palmer Deputy Clerk of the County of Saratoga do hereby certify that Thomas Palmer whose name is subscribed to the jurat of the within affidavit & certificate was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Saratoga. Duly commissioned & sworn the within are his signatures Witness my hand & Seal of office the 22 d August 1822
T. W. Palmer Dep: Clerk

Additional Affidavit
Silverdale County -
I, Jeremiah Ellis, late a Pensioner, & a revolutionary Soldier in Col. Bradleys Regiment Connecticut cut line, being duly sworn, depose & saith that from authentic information Col. Bradley died, in December 1820. & the papers or records of the Regiment he commanded in the revolutionary war cannot be found. & that deponent further says, he enlisted in April 1776 - and served until November following, when he was taken a prisoner by the Enemy at Fort Washington and remained until exchanged in the year 1780 - & that said Regiment was not disbanded until the year 1777. & further saith not
Jeremiah Ellis
Sworn before me Mar 22 - 1822. Aug 6 B. Tucker J. Read

I certify that the defendant to my belief is a man of credit - as far as I know - B. Tucker J. Clerk
-Salisbury - 10 -
Clerks Office - ps
I certify that Ben- jamin Tucker Esq whose signa- ture appears to the jurats of the affidavits of Jeremiah Bell, is, a Justice of the Peace of the Coun- ty of Salisbury. In testimony whereof, I subscribe my Name & affix the Official seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Salisbury, the 23 rd day of August 1822
William Horner Clerk

Schenectady Augt 24 th
Free
The Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secy
Secretary of War
Washington
Ms. 2.30. Aug 1 1822
Miss. Ennisk

Dear Sir/-
Inclosed are two Affidavits in the case of Jeremiah Bell, whose pension appears to have been suspended, on perusing your letter to Mr. H. Bennett as Instructor. The Objection is re- moved by the Affidavit of Mr. Nash, as well as the decla- ration, or Affidavit of Mr. Bell as far as is possible, owing to the death of Col. Bradley, should Mr. Bell's pension be continued. It is possible the Agency of the payment may be transfer- red from Connecticut, to New York State, as he is a very poor man - and the income means - is great. Your Atten- tion to his case will oblige
Yours
James Astor
Simsbury
Aug: 23 1822
J. L. Edwards Esq
Mr. Bell is in want

Schenectady Sept 17-1828
Free
The Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
for Thompson Recd. 24 Sept. 1828

Dear Sir,
In regard, you have the Affidavit of Jeremiah Bolls applying for a Transfer for the placement of his Pension in New York, instead of Connecticut your immediate attention to the poor man will confer a favor on Yours With respect.
Sincerely Sept. 17. 1822.
Jilles A. Hendon
Jeremiah Bolls's Ap- plication for trans- location to New York. Transp. 26 Sept. 1822 September 1822.

Application for a Transfer
State of New York,
County of Schenectady ss. On this seventeenth day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, before me, the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Schenectady. Personally appeared Jeremiah Ellis who, on his Oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company, commanded by Captain Hulen, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Bradley, in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut, from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the State of New York, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future.
Sworn and subscribed to Jeremiah Ellis before me the day and year aforesaid.
B. Tucker J. Peace
State of New York,
County of Schenectady . Clerk's Office ss I certify

That Benjamin Tucker Esq. whose signature appears to the jurata of the within affidavit of Jeremiah Ellis is a Justice of the Peace of said County — In testimony whereof I subscribe my name and affix the Official seal of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schuylkill this seventeenth day of September 1822.
Jules A. Honda Clerk County of Schuylkill